Infant Storytime: Sea Animals

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Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Slippery Fish Slippery fish, slippery fish sliding through the water Slippery fish, slippery fish Gulp, gulp, gulp oh no, its been eaten by a… octopus, octopus squiggling in the water octopus, octopus gulp, gulp, gulp oh no, its been eaten by a… tuna […]

Infant Storytime: Halloween

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Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Shadow Shapes I showed everyone these “scary shadows” that, upon being flipped over, turn out to be cute pictures of happy things! Who’s That Knocking? (Tune: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush) Who’s that knocking at my door? At my door, at […]

Infant Storytime: Ducks

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Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Six Little Ducks Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ones, Fair ones, too But the one little duck With the feather on his back He led the others With a quack, quack, quack Quack, quack, quack, Quack, quack, quack […]

Infant Storytime: Trees

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Books We Shared I Spy We got to meet some puppet animals that live in trees, peeking out of my I Spy Box! Flannel Boards We Shared Little Squirrel, Little Squirrel This flannelboard gave kids practice identifying color names, rhyming words, and left-to-right prereading focus. Little squirrel, little squirrel, time […]

Circus: Infant Storytime

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Last Tuesday, we visited the circus in books! Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Pete the Clown and his Three Bright Balloons (Credit: Story Time Secrets) (We just did three balloons) Pete the Clown bought three bright balloons at the circus. He was so excited about them, he sang […]

Bilingual Music for Infants and Toddlers with Nathalia

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This summer, our families from Infant and Toddler storytimes at Central Library got a special show performed by Colombian-American singer-songwriter Nathalia! She performed her original bilingual songs with lots of fun props, activity prompts, dances and movements to keep babies and toddlers and their parents highly engaged and having fun. […]

City Animals ~ Infant Storytime

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Today, we read about animals who live nearby!  (Some of these critters even sneak into our backyards and homes.) What follows are the books, rhymes, songs, tickle, bounces and flannel activity we shared.    Our library friends, Percy & Mickey! P.S.  At first I couldn’t find Mickey the mouse…he was hiding in my […]

Dogs: Infant Storytime

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Last Tuesday, we told stories about dogs! Books We Shared The Dog Book by Lorenzo Clerici is a fun metafiction that had everyone shouting “Wake UP!” and “Good dog!” As kids are prompted to interact with the illustrated dog, the illustrations change. I Love Dogs by Barney Saltzberg is a […]

Fish! ~ Toddler Storytime

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We read all about FISH in today’s Toddler Storytime! Blue (our library fish) swam over to play with us. Even though we took our storytime “under water” we had lots of fun and nobody got wet!!  What follows are the books, songs, rhymes, flannel board stories, movement activities and video we shared. BOOKS WE SHARED […]

Fish! ~ Infant Storytime

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We read all about fish in today’s Infant Storytime!  Blue (our library fish) swam over to play with us. Even though we took our storytime “under water” we had lots of fun and we didn’t get wet! Here are the books, songs, rhymes, bounces and flannel stories we shared. BOOKS WE SHARED   […]